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Edge Hill (Gladstone, Virginia)

Coordinates: 37°30′42″N 78°54′30″W / 37.51167°N 78.90833°W / 37.51167; -78.90833
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Edge Hill (Gladstone, Virginia) is located in Virginia
Edge Hill (Gladstone, Virginia)
Edge Hill (Gladstone, Virginia) is located in the United States
Edge Hill (Gladstone, Virginia)
Location1380 Edgehill Plantation Rd., near Gladstone, Virginia
Coordinates37°30′42″N 78°54′30″W / 37.51167°N 78.90833°W / 37.51167; -78.90833
Area71 acres (29 ha)
Builtc. 1801 (1801), 1833, 1947
Built byIsaac W. Walker, Pendleton S. Clark
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No.08000418[1]
VLR No.005-0005
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 15, 2008
Designated VLRMarch 20, 2008[2]

Edge Hill, also known as Green Hills and Walker's Ford Sawmill, is a historic home and farm located in Amherst County, Virginia, near Gladstone. The main house was built in 1833, and is a two-story, brick I-house in the Federal-style. It has a standing seam metal gable roof and two interior end chimneys. Attached to the house by a former breezeway enclosed in 1947, is the former overseer's house, built about 1801. Also on the property are the contributing office, pumphouse, corncrib, and log-framed barn all dated to about 1833. Below the bluff, adjacent to the railroad and near the James River, are four additional outbuildings: a sawmill and shed (1865), tobacco barn, and a post and beam two-story cattle barn (c. 1947). Archaeological sites on the farm include slave quarters, additional outbuildings and a slave cemetery.[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
  3. ^ Sandra F. Esposito (October 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Edge Hill" (PDF). and Accompanying four photos